Two members of the female Russian punk rock/activist group were violently attacked in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia today by thugs, which Amnesty International said appeared to be sent by “an organized group.”

In a video posted online, see below, you can see the men throw things at the woman, and spray them with pepper spray or something similar. The men yell epithets at the women, calling them “whores” and “bitches,” and telling them to shove their chicken meals “in your c*nt.”

You can hear someone calling for McDonald’s security, but McDonald’s security appears to never show up, while the attack against the women continues.

Due to the video, the faces of the attackers are clearly evident. But the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has a poor track record of prosecuting such attacks, even when the attackers are on film.

Here is the one shooting the pepper spray, in the video you can hear the women scream:

As you can see, it’s not terribly difficult identifying the attackers:

The Russian government is thought to either tacitly, or overtly, approve of this violence, as it’s occuring against “enemies of the state,” be they gays, blacks, Jews, successful industrialists who don’t toe the party line, or in this case, a couple of women in a band who don’t know their place in a country over-run by actual neo-Nazis.

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